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Nope. $8.8m does me no good if I get killed in a robbery, killed in some civil war, or die from the lack of proper healthcare.

Money can alleviate those risks but not fix them fully.

You can buy a lot of security for half that.

NK would be bad because of government repression, but Somalia might be doable.

- parts of the country are defacto independent of the state

- can hire a private army for security

- short hop on a private DC-8 to world class health care in the gulf

Speak for yourself. I would not move to North Korea no matter how much I was paid, ever.

While tempting, I would think hard and loong. I've moved countries three times already, and it's getting harder and harder to do.

I wouldn't even go into the office for 8.8 million.